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A House For Mr Biswas choose

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[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 357: God! God! Isn’t this just the sort of arseness to make you go and dance on the grave afterwards?
at arseness (n.) under arse, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 249: Aunt Sushila bawl off the men when they was loading the galvanize on the lorry.
at bawl off, v.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 164: She bawling again. She want more trust.
at bawl, v.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 251: You blasted little bitches! Let me catch one of you and see if I don’t cut his foot off.
at bitch, n.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 173: I ain’t even seen the blasted man yet.
at blasted, adj.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 449: Boy! You had me frightened.
at boy!, excl.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 159: The shop gone bust yet?
at go bust (v.) under bust, adj.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 244: ‘I suppose you use up every cent you had?’ ‘Every red cent,’ Mr Biswas said.
at red cent, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 446: You are a bigger crammer than me.
at crammer, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 164: Seebaran woulda fix you up in two twos.
at fix up, v.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 357: ‘Glad like hell,’ Mr Biswas said.
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 160: Hell, hell, helluva thing.
at helluva, adj.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 362: ‘Trapped!’ Mr Biswas would say. ‘You and your family have got me trapped in this hole.’.
at hole, n.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 358: He tell me he does sell his papers like hot cakes.
at like hot cakes under hot, adj.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 143: Mr Biswas prepared to stick it out.
at stick it out (v.) under stick it, v.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 493: ‘I run in more cars than you,’ Jagdat said angrily. [...] ‘He will lick it up,’ Ajodha repeated.
at lick, v.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 188: Do it quick sharp, or I give you a dose of licks.
at licks, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 491: Matchbox, eh. English car, you know.
at matchbox, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 363: Nah. But suppose he ask her to go to town and buy something.
at nah!, excl.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 536: I don’t know where you get the niggergram from. I am not leaving. You leaving.
at niggergram (n.) under nigger, n.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 385: Prakash say his pappy got more books than you.
at pappy, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 357: ‘A capitalist rag,’ he began to say. ‘Just another capitalist rag.’.
at rag, n.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 242: ‘Spanish,’ Jagdat said. Mr Biswas knew this was a euphemism for a red-skinned Negro.
at red, adj.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 358: Let them sack me like hell. Think I care? I want them to sack me.
at sack, v.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 188: Do it quick sharp, or I give you a dose of licks.
at sharp, adv.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 173: You mean shell out. All right. Pounds, shillings and pence, dollars and cents.
at shell out (v.) under shell, v.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 450: All fair and square now.
at square, adj.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 521: The readers [...] began to despise their teachers [...] as ill-informed stooges.
at stooge, n.
[WI] V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 173: Just let me get this straight. Mugroo owe me money.
at straight, adj.1
[WI] V.S. Naipaul House For Mr Biswas 88: So I give she a little of the old sweet talk and I see that she was liking me too.
at sweet talk, n.
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